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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2004
Chih-chung Kuo, Hsinchu, TW;
Chi-shiang Kuo, Yung Kang, TW;
Jau-hung Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An automatic speech segmentation and verification system and method is disclosed, which has a known text script and a recorded speech corpus corresponding to the known text script. A speech unit segmentor segments the recorded speech corpus into N test speech unit segments referring to the phonetic information of the known text script. Then, a segmental verifier is applied to obtain a confidence measure of syllable segmentation for verifying the correctness of the cutting points of test speech unit segments. A phonetic verifier obtains a confidence measure of syllable verification by using verification models for verifying whether the recorded speech corpus is correctly recorded. Finally, a speech unit inspector integrates the confidence measure of syllable segmentation and the confidence measure of syllable verification to determine whether the test speech unit segment is accepted or not.